I’ve read some encouraging news recently, about the increase in forested area in Ethiopia. Due to deforestation, Ethiopia has lost pretty much all of its green coverage. In later years, however, there have been many campaigns to reforest the country that involved not only planting new trees, but also [...]

I just realized that I’ve been talking about injera for a while, but never posted anything about the main ingredient, teff flour, or more precisely about the grain teff. Teff (ጤፍ ) or “Eragrostis tef” is an ancient grass that originated between 4000 BC to 1000 [...]

In the southwestern part of Ethiopia, in the Highlands over the Rift Valley, live the Gamo people among other cultures. This quite isolated region has remained the same for many centuries both culturally and biologically. But things are changing and not always for the better; this is what the documentary [...]

The Enset / Ensete - እንሰት (ïnsät) or False banana tree (Ensete ventricosum) is native to Ethiopia. Actually there are more than 40 varieties of Ensete and the family name this plant belongs to, Musaceae, derives from the Ethiopian word for banana, or Muz - ሙዝ . Contrary to the regular [...]